One dot per locality in our dataset, 220 of them, shaded by how
much of the Sun the Moon covers at maximum. The gradient runs diagonally
across the country — 96.4% in the far south-west, 89.6% in the north-east — because the path of totality
passes below and to the west of the British Isles and never comes ashore
here. Tap or hover any dot for its name and figure; the labelled cities
link straight to their times.
Obscuration across the United Kingdom, locality by locality
This map is our own approximation. Each dot is one
locality from our dataset, projected equirectangularly (longitude and
latitude straight onto x and y, scaled by the cosine of the mid
latitude) — it is not the official track of the Moon's shadow, and it
deliberately draws no coastline. For the official UK view of this
eclipse see the
Royal Observatory Greenwich
; for the shadow track itself, our interactive map of the path across Spain.
The nearest point of the path of totality to the deepest place on this
map, Hugh Town, is Cariño (
A Coruña, Spain) — about 699 km away in a straight line,
with 1m 47s of totality. Everywhere
on this map is outside it.
How to read the map
Percentage of the Sun covered
The darker the dot, the more of the Sun's disc disappears at
maximum: from 89.6% at the pale end to 96.4% at the dark end. Only 20 of
the 220 places reach 94%, the point at
which the daylight itself starts to look wrong.
Labelled cities
The larger dots carry a label with their real figure and link to
that city's page, with first contact, maximum, last contact and
the Sun's height. Every other dot has the same data behind it —
the full list is on the ranking page.
No band of totality
You will not find a golden band on this map, because there is
none to draw over the UK: 0 of our 220 localities are inside the path. The dashed callout
points towards where it actually runs, out in the Atlantic and on
towards northern Spain.
The ten darkest dots
All in the far south-west, closest to the shadow's track — with the
local time of maximum (British Summer Time (BST, UTC+1) — the clock time everywhere in the UK on 12 August 2026):
Hugh Town — 96.4% at 19:16 (England, Sun 13.4° high)
No coastline was drawn: the outline you see is the 220
localities of our own UK dataset, nothing more. Circumstances computed for the coordinates of each locality with JPL DE440s ephemerides, the same pipeline that powers the Spanish and Icelandic pages on this site. All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1). The
colour scale is linear between the three stops shown in the legend.
Distances quoted here are straight-line distances between coordinates.
And whatever the shade of your dot, the rule is the same everywhere on
this map: this is a partial eclipse from end to end, so certified EN ISO 12312-2 filters are needed
for every second of it.